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This is fast becoming my favorite thread.

I fully intend to see this through to the finish. And I haven't bought any albums from years I've already completed since I started this. So nothing has been overlooked yet.

This thread has me really wanting to do the same thing, except for maybe in Blog format. I'd like it to be something I could edit later, and insert albums as I buy them in the future.
I think this idea is on too grand of a scale for me. I'll let you finish up.

I'm sort of shocked at all the Rolling Stones discs you have. Who really needs that many Stones albums?

Holy Christ.

You really are the worst poster on this board aren't you

I have something like 18 proper Stones albums, and a mountain of bootlegs and mp3s fromover the years. Plus 2-3 compilations of Stones' members favorite songs, 2 keef solo albums, 2 mick solo albums and 2 Ronnie solo albums.

Holy Christ.

I was going to put in a discalimer for you, but wanted to see what fun I could stir up.

I just liked the quality of the SACD remasters and I'm a fan of most early Stones stuff so I started picking them up gradually used when I could find them. As you can see by a couple of my reviews, I don't necessarily like them all. But I own a few of them simply to complete the collection.

035. Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward (1984)




There is not a misstep on this album. And it's so interesting. The little beeps and blips and whirs on tracks like 'It Doesn't Matter' make an ordinarily great pop song into a surreal machine-made piece of music.

The final punch of 'Blasphemous Rumours' cements the deal and leaves you KO'ed.

What, no love for Bill Wyman's solo stuff? Si si, il est un rock star.

036. The Smiths - Hatful Of Hollow (1984)




This not my favorite Smiths album. Nor is it my favorite Smiths compilation album. In fact, this is one of my least favorite Smiths albums, despite the abundance of quality songs. This is due to three reasons:

1) Louder Than Bombs has a stronger tracklisting, for a compilation.

2) 'How Soon Is Now?'
I can never listen to this song again, due to the oversaturation.

3) The production itself. The tracks on this album that appear elsewhere appear here with different mixes, to the worse. This is apparent most (to me) on 'Reel Around The Fountain'. This version feels cold and empty. The version on their debut sounds warm and lovely.

Hollow is right.

no blues, jazz or beatles?...huh, well to each his own I guess.

I can't believe he's up to 1984 already...

yeah, he went pretty quickly through the 60's and 70's.

He's pretty young, right? Give him a break.

We weren't all born with huge record collections.

But some of us were born with better taste.

I've got four or five jazz albums. That's much more than anyone else my age that I know.

And yeah, I haven't heard too many blues artists that I've been into and I loathe the Beatles.

I've only got 408 cd's.

But yeah, '50s, '60s, and '70s material only makes up about 7% of that collection.

Shut up Sidney, that's not rock and roll.

im more surprised at his few albums between 77-84

i dont have all that many actual copies of albums before that, but i have a bunch from this period, which probably says a lot about my taste

037. The Smiths - Meat Is Murder (1985)




This is still probably my least favorite Smiths album. And that's beside the fact that it includes 'How Soon Is Now?'.

There are only two tracks on here that I particularly love -- 'I Want The One I Can't Have' and 'That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore'.

If I wasn't a completist, insisting on owning every Smiths album out there, I probably wouldn't own this.

038. R.E.M. - Reconstruction Of The Fables (1985)




I'm still kind of ehh in terms of early REM. On most of the discs, there's two or three songs I really love but the rest is just there. On this disc, that would be 'Driver 8' and 'Can't Get There From Here'. The rest seems samey and passable.

I don't listen to this one very often at all.

039. Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground (1985)




When you're following up a record like their debut, you've got a hard enough time ahead of you. This isn't a great album. The first one was great. But this one is really good. And that's an accomplishment in itself. By all rights, this album should've been terrible and completely unlistenable. Just retracing the same territory as the first one.

It's not. They made a conscious decision to go an entirely different route. And even all the biblical content and religion doesn't weigh it down. The tracks are just as catchy as anything off Violent Femmes and gives you a big sigh of relief that, hey, maybe VF is a good band, not just a good album.

040. The Smiths - The World Won't Listen (1986)




Another Smiths compilation. I like this more than Hatful but it's still not as good as Louder Than Bombs, despite the fact that they share many of the same songs.

I only own this because of the presence of one or two songs on here that aren't available on any other album. But those songs aren't even that good. 'Money Changes Everything', for instance, is barely a song.

This is more a collector's item than anything I'd ever decide to put on and listen to.

Is your hair still orange?